JOHN 10:35 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;”
If he called them 'gods,' to whom the word of God came — and Scripture cannot be set aside — Jesus grounds His argument in the inviolability of Scripture (he graphē ou dynatai lythēnai, Scripture cannot be broken), using this principle to defend His own claim. Scripture stands; those to whom God's word came were rightly called gods. The authority of Scripture validates the divine language applied to those who represent God, and by extension, validates Jesus' claim.
Church Fathers on John 10:35
At this speech, I and My Father are one, the Jews could not restrain their rage, but ran to take up stones, after their hardhearted way: Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him.
The heretics now, as unbelieving and rebellious against our Lord in heaven, show their impious hatred by the stones, i.e. the words they cast at Him; as if they would drag Him down again from His throne to the cross.
Our Lord remonstrates with them; Many good works have I showed you from My Father, strewing that they had no just reason for their anger.
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